from sys import argv
script, filename = argv
print "We're going to erase %r." % filename
print "If you don't want that, hit CTRL-C (^C)."
print "If you do want that, hit RETURN."
raw_input( "?" )
print "Opening the file..."
target = open( filename, 'w' )
print "Truncating the file. Goodbye!"
target. truncate()
print "Now I'm going to ask you for three lines."
line1 = raw_input( "line 1: " )
line2 = raw_input( "line 2: " )
line3 = raw_input( "line 3: " )
print "I'm going to write these to the file."
target. write( line1 )
target. write( " \n" )
target. write( line2 )
target. write( " \n" )
target. write( line3 )
target. write( " \n" )
print "And finally, we close it."
target. close()